precessor

Latin praecessor.

precessor (plural precessors)

1. (obsolete) A predecessor; one who came before.
   • August 30 1651, Bishop Joseph Hall, letter to Thomas Fuller

     Your much devoted friend, precessor, and fellow-labourer, JOS. HALL, B. N. HIGHAM

• “precessor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• corepress, prescores, processer, reprocess